Re: Guru Nanak and Makkah
As for the story about Guru Nanak visiting Mecca then I’ll have to say I don’t believe it is true, I don’t mean to offend anyone but NO Muslim believes that Allaah is contained within the Kaabah, the Kaabah is a Temple like a Dharamsal or Gurduwara is to Sikhs, we face in it’s direction during prayer and visit it because it was the first Temple to be built on earth to worship One God and it’s a show of unity and submission to One God when all Muslims together face one direction on the centre of the world, we don’t even think about or mention the Kaabah/Temple during our prayers, our prayers are directed to God alone who is transcendent, imageless, beyond human-conception…
Sikhs assuming that Muslims worship the Kaabah because we face it during prayers is as silly as Muslims assuming Sikhs worship the Guru Granth Sahib instead of Waheguru when Sikhs do Matha Tek (prostration) in front of it and sit facing it during Gurbani.
Sikhs assuming that we worship the Kaabah when we visit/pilgrimage to it is as silly as Muslims assuming Sikhs worship Harmandir-Sahib or Panja-Sahib when they visit those temples to pray there. When we visit/pilgrimage to the Kaabah we go there to pray to God not to the Kaabah itself just as Sikhs don’t pray to the Guruduwara they go to but to Waheguru.
Sikhs assuming that Muslims believe God is limited to the Kaabah just because we consider it sacred and don’t desecrate it is as stupid as Muslims assuming that Sikhs believe Waheguru is literally contained in the direction of the Guru Granth Sahib when Sikhs don’t stand on it, put it on the floor or point their feet towards but instead place it on fancy beds, cushions at the Gurdwara and at home in separate AC rooms called Baba Ji Da Kamra.
Anyway the rule about not pointing ones feet in the direction of the Holy Kaabah is not in any of our scriptures, it’s more of a Indo-Pak Muslim practice… In the early days of Islaam the Prophet Muhammed’s :saw: companions would climb onto the roof of the Kaabah and stand on top of it to call people to prayer.